Klara Kasparova with a young Kasparov. In the first volume of "Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov" (2011), he wrote: "She did not teach me what I should think, but that I should have a critical attitude to everything that I read or heard."

🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)

Alexander Morozevich - Best Chess Tactics

Do you know Diana Lanni, once the 2nd highest rated female chess player in the U.S., and a likely inspiration for Beth Harmon's character in #TheQueensGambit?

Chess historian batgirl tells her fascinating story! 👀

Daily chess puzzle
Morphy - Maurian, New Orleans 1866

https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/208204

It's the most wonderful time of the year🎶🎄Make this a December to remember - and start playing and learning Chess with ChessMatec!🎇

Head over to our website to get your loved ones the perfect present! 👉🏻 http://www.chessmatec.com

Meet Jessica Lauser, the reigning three-time U.S. Blind chess champion. You can call her Chessica — the nickname her math teacher gave her in eighth grade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/well/live/jessica-lauser-chess-blind-champion.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Nakamura, Aronian, Dubov, Radjabov and So form a 5-player leading pack after Day 1 of the #AirthingsMasters!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-airthings-masters-2020-prelims/4/1/6

#c24live #ChessChamps

A solid start for Magnus Carlsen which would have looked a lot better if he'd spotted a 1-move tactic against Levon Aronian in the first round!

Here is a famous Pal Benko's holiday puzzle that was first published by Chessbase in 2010. Do you think the placement of pieces resembles more of a candle 🕯 or a tree 🎄? White to move and mate in two!

1983. The beginning of 80s in Western Europe was marked by emergence new generation players on the international chess arena. Ulf Andersson and Jan Timman were undoubtedly considered leaders. But there were many other interesting players. For example, Murray Chandler (N. Zealand)

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

"Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless."

🔸 Mikhail Tal

@UnityChessClub

Here's a small gift from my Patreon archive: when he arrived in the Netherlands in March 1935 for talks with Max Euwe about their forthcoming world championship, Alexander Alekhine addressed the Dutch fans in German in this brief but valuable clip. https://www.patreon.com/urcan

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